What are the magical uses of osmanthus

Osmanthus is a very common plant with a unique aroma. It has the function of resisting oxidation, hydrogen fluoride and other harmful gases. Osmanthus has a strong ability to adsorb dust, so osmanthus trees can often be seen on the roadside or in mining areas. In fact, osmanthus has a wide range of uses. We are less exposed to it in our lives, so we don’t know much about it. Here are some uses of osmanthus.

After the osmanthus flowers are dried, they can be used to make tea. Osmanthus tea has a refreshing fragrance. After being slightly scalded in boiling water, the osmanthus flowers are picked up and dried, crushed with sugar, and sealed in a bottle to preserve their color and aroma. They can be used as a food spice. Osmanthus tea is made by mixing osmanthus flowers, pure lotus root powder and white sugar to make osmanthus lotus root powder, which is delicious and appetizing.

Take high-quality jujubes, add sugar and cook, when the soup is almost finished, add osmanthus flowers, and you will get osmanthus candied dates that are good for the spleen and appetite. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that osmanthus is warm in nature and spicy in taste. Taking it orally by decocting it into a soup, making it into tea, or soaking it in wine can dissipate phlegm and blood stasis. It has certain effects on loss of appetite, cough due to phlegm and asthma, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, amenorrhea and abdominal pain. Cinnamon twigs, cinnamon seeds, and cinnamon roots can all be used as medicine. Guizhi Decoction, which is made of cinnamon twigs, peony, ginger, jujube and licorice, is specifically used to treat exogenous wind-cold, fever and headache. Cassia root tastes sweet and slightly astringent.

Osmanthus is the flower of the Oleaceae family. It tastes spicy and warm. It enters the lung and large intestine meridians. It has good therapeutic effects on abdominal cramps, chest tightness and shortness of breath, dizziness, palpitations and irritability, intestinal gas accumulation and hyperperistalsis or spasm, and coughing up phlegm. Regular consumption is of obvious help to beauty and skin care.

The ancients believed that osmanthus was the best of all medicines, so wine brewed with osmanthus could achieve the effect of "drinking it will make you live a thousand years."

In fact, during the Han Dynasty in my country, osmanthus wine was already used to make wine. Drinking osmanthus wine can prolong life and beautify the skin. People who have cough and phlegm or suffer from duodenal ulcer can drink osmanthus wine. In addition, drinking osmanthus wine can eliminate bad breath and improve eyesight. The plan can be made into pastries, such as osmanthus cake, and can also be made into osmanthus spices.